You got Antifa. We'll stick with the nonjudgemental hurricanes. I'll take man vs nature anyday over man vs man.
Just saw a video of the huge dry dock warehouse in PC. It caved in, boats just piled on top of each other. That area is bad right now.
We’re totally fine thankfully. Amazing how just being a little bit west of it makes all the difference in the world.
I'm seeing vid come in from Mexico Beach and PC. Bad stuff. Prayers said for the people affected. Not just where it made landfall either. It's basically a 50 mile wide F3 tornado just running right through the SE. We're supposed to be getting 50mph winds from it all the way up here in NC tomorrow. I've never seen a hurricane do that before.
Prayers sent to all affected. I was going to head to RA for PLM this afternoon after work, but I think I'll give it another 24 hours to dry out.
Hurricane Ike caused 75mph winds all the way into Ohio on September 14 2008. It caused a lot of damage. Was also the MotoGP race in Indy if I recall correctly. Good luck everyone!
Those are just boats the real tragedy was when Ivan hit FloraBama.... All kidding aside hope everyone is OK with minimal loss of stuff.
Yes, it was. Crazy!! I was working T6 or 7, don't recall, and it was relatively calm, sunny, light sprinkle, then around the corner down the back stretch strong winds blew over a large vendor covering. Might've been Yamaha tent, not sure though. Got the call to display Red flags, and we were all looking at one another confused since we'd heard nothing over the radio.
We were up in the bleachers on the outside of turns 1,2,3 and I remember the Yamaha tent getting picked up and moved. Then lightning struck and I'm like "We need to GTF out of here!"
I saw that. It looked like WWII. Also saw drone footage from Mexico beach. Reminded me of claims we saw from Katrina. Nothing but concrete slabs and debris where structure used to be.
I'm not sure of others, but doesn't @Robby-Bobby and @Dits live in that area, are they okay? I see @t11ravis lives there and is okay.
We were in the stands above the final turn when it hit. As soon as the race was over we walked out, got on our bikes and rode back to Cincy in it. Funny thing is, it didn't seem terrible while riding. Windy yes but not hurricane like. When we started having to ride around fallen trees and power lines I was like wtf happened here?
It wasn't until I got south east of Louisville that I could find a gas station open or somewhere to eat, fun day.
Pcola did fine. Dits is outside of Orlando so I'm sure he's fine too. The BBS does have 1 or 2 members (that I know of) that were right in the middle of it property-wise. I believe they're OK but still could use our support in anyway possible.